St. Cuthbert Mayne was executed in 1577 in Launceston, Cornwall, England, by hanging and drawing and quartering. Tradition holds that he was still alive, though possibly unconscious, when the executioner cut him down from the gibbet. He was canonized in 1970 as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
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